The Complete Works of W. Shakespeare; Wordsworth, 1996

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of`Hamlet`,`King Lear`,`Othello`and`Macbeth`as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as`A Midsummer Night`s Dream`,`The Taming of the Shrew`and`As You Like It`with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare`s Sonnets, as well as his longer poems`Venus and Adonis`and`The Rape of Lucrece`.